Novum organon renovatum: Being the second part of the philosophy of the inductive sciencesWhewell, William
Philosophy
Novum organon renovatum: Being the second part of the philosophy of the inductive sciences
Whewell, William
Science -- Philosophy
_Secondary qualities are measured by means of such effects as can be
estimated in number or space._ (IV. 4.)
LXX.
_The Measure of Sounds, as high or low, is the_ Musical Scale, _or_
Harmonic Canon. (IV. 4.)
LXXI.
_The Measures of Pure Colours are the_ Prismatic Scale; _the same,
including_ Fraunhofer's Lines; _and_ Newton's Scale _of Colours. The
principal Scales of Impure Colours are_ Werner's Nomenclature _of
Colours, and_ Merimée's Nomenclature _of Colours_. (IV. 4.)
LXXII.
_The Idea of_ Polarity _involves the conception of contrary
properties in contrary directions:--the properties being, for
example, attraction and repulsion, darkness and light, synthesis and
analysis; and the contrary directions being those which are directly
opposite, or, in some cases, those which are at right angles._
(V. 1.)
LXXIII. (Doubtful.)
_Coexistent polarities are fundamentally identical._ (V. 2.)
LXXIV.
_The Idea of Chemical_ Affinity, _as implied in Elementary
Composition, involves peculiar conceptions. It is not properly
expressed by assuming the qualities of bodies to_ resemble _those of
the elements, or to depend on the_ figure _of the elements, or on
their_ attractions. (VI. 1.) {19}
LXXV.
_Attractions take place between bodies, Affinities between the
particles of a body. The former may be compared to the alliances of
states, the latter to the ties of family._ (VI. 2.)
LXXVI.
_The governing principles of Chemical Affinity are, that it is_
elective; _that it is_ definite; _that it_ determines the properties
_of the compound; and that_ analysis is possible. (VI. 2.)
LXXVII.
_We have an idea of_ Substance: _and an axiom involved in this Idea
is, that_ the weight of a body is the sum of the weights of all its
elements. (VI. 3.)
LXXVIII.
_Hence Imponderable Fluids are not to be admitted as chemical
elements._ (VI. 4.)
LXXIX.
_The Doctrine of Atoms is admissible as a mode of expressing and
calculating laws of nature; but is not proved by any fact, chemical
or physical, as a philosophical truth._ (VI. 5.)
LXXX.
_We have an Idea of_ Symmetry; _and an axiom involved in this Idea
is, that in a symmetrical natural body, if there be a tendency to
modify any member in any manner, there is a tendency to modify all
the corresponding members in the same manner._ (VII. 1.)
LXXXI.
_All hypotheses respecting the manner in which the elements of
inorganic bodies are arranged in space, must be constructed with
regard to the general facts of crystallization._ (VII. 3.) {20}
LXXXII.
_When we consider any object as_ One, _we give unity to it by an act
of thought. The condition which determines what this unity shall
include, and what it shall exclude, is this;--that assertions
concerning the one thing shall be possible._ (VIII. 1.)
LXXXIII.
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